The Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team may have lost plenty of talent from last year’s squad, but they have brought new faces to the program that should significantly help the team. Rashaun McLemore, Lenny Daniel and Dathan Lyles have all transferred to Northridge and brought with them a successful and winning pedigree. The team lost depth [...]…
Read moreFour years ago men’s basketball head coach Bobby Braswell was in a recruiting battle with Arizona State and the University of Tulsa. They were going after Mark Hill, a 5-foot-11 point guard from John C. Fremont High School in South Central Los Angeles. But instead of staying close to home, Hill rejected Braswell’s scholarship offer [...]…
Read moreLast season the Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team put themselves on the map by almost knocking off the mighty Tigers of Memphis in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Getting to the Big Dance didn’t come easy for the Matadors. First they had to overcome losing their leading scorer Deon Tresvant, who was [...]…
Read moreThe Cal State Northridge women’s soccer team has a bright future, despite having its season ended by UC Santa Barbara last week 2-1 in the conference semi-finals. It was the first time in the school’s history that they were able to host a conference tournament game, and only the third time the Matadors reached the tournament [...]…
Read moreThe second annual Big West Conference Tournament gets underway Wednesday, featuring the top four men’s soccer teams. As the fourth-place team, Cal State Northridge (10-7-2, 5-4-1 BW) will face perennial powerhouse and regular season champ UC Santa Barbara, which ranked No. 3 in the nation last week. With an 8-1-1 conference record (14-3-2 overall…
Read moreThe Mustangs couldn’t get anything going offensively for them in the paint, given the fact they only had two players over 6-foot-5 going up against a taller Matador team. The Mustangs then decided to utilize their speed to run around screens for open jump shots, mainly from three-point range. They were able to put up [...]…
Read moreIt was an all too familiar weekend on the road for the Northridge women’s volleyball team as they went winless against UC Riverside Friday night and again Saturday night against UC Irvine. The Matadors dropped their seventh of the last nine five-set matches against the Highlanders after taking a two-set advantage. UC Riverside closed the match [.…
Read moreAt last count going into Saturday night’s season finale, there were about seven different tie-breaker scenarios that would determine which school would clinch the fourth and final spot in the Big West Conference’s men’s soccer tournament. In the end, there was no need for any hypothetical scenarios. Cal State Northridge (10-7-2, 5-4-1 BW) byp…
Read moreIn the semi-final game of the Big West Women’s Soccer Tournament the second seed Cal State Northridge (10-10, 6-3 Big West) was defeated by the third seed UC Santa Barbara 2-1, Thursday afternoon at Matador Field. Both teams played extremely well, creating an exciting game with an abundance of scoring chances. Despite the tough loss, CSUN [...]…
Read moreIn the last two days college basketball powerhouses have struggled in exhibition matches against non-NCAA Division-I schools. No. 25 Syracuse lost to Division-II Le Moyne, and UCLA squeezed a one-point victory over Concordia, a school that is’nt even in the NCAA but the lesser-known NAIA. That made head coach Bobby Braswell a little bit w…
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